United States Naval Academy - Lucky Bag Yearbook (Annapolis, MD)

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Midn X: At 1825 on Sunday, Hospital Point seemed just as far away as the Stadium. I guess it was all right, though. The dash back to the Hall gave us a chance to practice for the New and Improved Mile-and-A-Little-Bit-More. THE YEAR IN REVIEW... Midn X and Midn Y were in the yearbook office, reminiscing about The Year. Midn X: Hey, remember when we used to get all those honor bulletins? They always used our names, and it really made me mad. I was afraid we might be getting a reputation. Midn Y: I remember. Those were the good old days. USNA. They gave up the bulletins when they ran out of letters. But you ' re off the track already. You ' re supposed to be reminiscing about THE YEAR. You know, OUR year, this year, when we were first class, leaders of men and women, responsible, in control . . . Midn X: In control of what? The first thing I remember about being a first class is getting a thirty-minute lecture on where I couldn ' t park. Midn Y: You must be thinking of the changes neccesitated by the building of the Dave Rob- inson Memorial Basketball Arena ... I mean, the Brigade Activities Center. Look on the bright side, though; at least we were all allowed to park in the Yard. According to Rumor Control Cen- tral, anyone with an OOM in the bottom two hundred would have had to park at the Stadium. Midn Y Right. And while you were parking on Hospital Point, you got a chance to look over the New and Improved (Safer!) Obstacle Course. You know, I heard someone was killed on the O- Course. Midn X: That was just an out-of-control rumor, Y. Speaking of Rumor Control Central — there were some pretty good stories floating around about former SECNAV Webb ' s much anticipat- ed USNA visit. Midn Y: I heard a couple of those. According to one rumor, Mr. Webb was going to come to the Academy and give us a Forrestal Lecture during exam week. Midn X: That wasn ' t a rumor, Y. That really happened. I was talking about the crazy idea that ' 90 would have a Two for Nine Night. Or the even more amusing story that an alpha code had been found on one of those women ' s under- garments — you know, the ones that were found hanging in trees on the morning of his change of command ceremony. Now that could have made his speech really interesting. Midn Y: Even so, we hung — get it? — on his every word, and responded joyously to the news that all summer training would henceforth last eight weeks instead of four. Midn X: At least the firsties responded joyously. I wonder how the Training Officer responded. 18